Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001. BF6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket mylar sleeve endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the front and back free endpapers, and the title page. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. Illustrated with black and white as well as color reproductions of artwork. A novel set in 2057 about the first genetically engineered visual artist who has been murdered at the age of nineteen. This novel is his biography, organized around a retrospective of his work mounted at the Virtual Museum of Manual Art about ten years after his death. By the author of "A Pile of Stones," "Notes from the Frontier," "In the Reign of Peace," "My Own Ground," "The Tree of Life," and "The Elephant and My Jewish Problem." 261p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Nissenson, Hugh. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

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Seller: Bookmarc's (US)
Seller's Inventory #: SCW11732
Title: The Song of the Earth
Author: Nissenson, Hugh
Illustrator: Nissenson, Hugh
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 1565122984
ISBN 13: 9781565122987
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Place of Publication: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Date Published: 2001
Keywords: Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Literary Novel Modern Fiction First Art Artist Artists Technology Speculative Fiction Science Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction: Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Science Fiction; Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts; Literature / Authors K-P;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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